alec stewart speaking there, who was capped in the last time england hosted the world cup in 1999.t a few minutes' time, but for now, let's go back to stephen at the bbc sport centre. just two more sleeps until the all—english champions league final. not long to wait. tottenham are already in madrid going through their final preparations whilst liverpool have remained a home, at their melwood training complex, a little longer. reporting from the spanish capital our sports correspondent, natalie pirks. well,, believe it or not, fans have already started to gather here in madrid as the city braces itself for at least 33,000 liverpool and spurs fans, but in reality it could be even double that, because i've been speaking to some today, and many of them don't even have match tickets, they just felt they simply had to be here. and of course we had these amazing stories about journeys here. and of course we had these amazing stories aboutjourneys to baku, but equally we hearing about some amazing stories today. i've spoken to fans who have come from thailand, hong kong, even melbourne an

so a winning start for eoin morgan's men at this world cup, and anotherformer england captain, alec stewartsays he was impressed by what he saw today. they are playing as favourites and talking as they rest does not england way of doing things him and only quite reserve or they are saying we are a very good team and we know we have been good and know how to play sentiment to continue that through the group stages and get into the last four and then plate to very good knockout games. kyle edmund's french open has been ended by injury. a recurrance of a knee problem forced the british number one to quit during his second—round match against uruguay‘s pablo cuevas. with more, here'sjim lumsden. edmund had dropped to 30th in the world rankings, down from 14th at the start of the year, after five successive defeats on the clay, which he once described as his preferred surface. had the right stop? his uruguayan opponent made a fantastic start. the briton rallied to force a tie—break but his opponent came through that 7—3. he picked up where he had left off as a now heavy legged edmund moped aroun

and speak to press alec stewart to the director of the center of bricks studies at birmingham city university thank you for taking the time to speak to us so all eyes now on the leadership contest that has been a long time coming the front runner as you is saying is the former foreign secretary boris johnson. but the favorite to win in such races isn't necessarily the victor what are your thoughts on his prospects. no ourselves the course is clearly the raging favorite one poll suggests that it could affect easily 40 percent of the vote tory party members as a person say dominic rob and i knew about this than 20 percent but of course what does it mean to to win in those circumstances a pm johnson and it was yesterday reaffirmed that he would be leaving that they want the end of october deal or no deal would still be facing a parliament before the remain a majority of the risk clearly no appetite at all to leave you with no deal so he would he or she would still face the same constraints that a reason may do. and that the e.u. appears to be preparing for a bar a stance and premiership that is